WILLOW: This is a nightmare. This is... My world is spinning.

XANDER: It's not that bad, Willow, really.

WILLOW: 740? Verbal?! I'm-I'm... pathetic! Illiterate! I'm Cletus, the slack-jawed yokel.

XANDER: That's right. And the fact that your 740 verbal closely resembles my combined scores in no way compromises your position as the village idiot.

WILLOW: I just... Where did I go wrong?

XANDER: You did amazing, Willow. As usual.

CORDELIA: You guys get your scores?

XANDER: Cordelia! Willow was very sad by her academic failure. How did you do? (snags her report, reads) This is not good.

CORDELIA: What's not good?

XANDER: Well, I'm just worried it may hurt my standing as campus stud when people find out I'm dating a brain.

CORDELIA: Please. I have *some* experience in covering these things up.

OZ: (to Willow) Well, I can see why you'd be upset. That was my sarcastic voice.

XANDER: You know, it sounds a lot like your regular voice.

OZ: I've been told that. But we should celebrate, do something.

CORDELIA: Like, the four of us?

XANDER: A double date! It could have potential.

WILLOW: Buffy! Hey! Did you get your SAT scores?

XANDER: By the look on your face, I'm guessing you and I are gonna be manning the drive-through window side by side.

BUFFY: They're just test scores, right? What do they really mean, anyway?

WILLOW: 1430! Buffy, you kicked ass! (more calmly) Okay, so academic achievement gets me a little excited.

XANDER: Buff, that's amazing.

CORDELIA: Let me see that.

OZ: Yeah. With scores like that, you can apply pretty much anywhere you want.

WILLOW: Buffy, this could, like, change your whole future.

BUFFY: The thought had occurred to me.

XANDER: Then why the sour puss?

BUFFY: I don't know. I guess... my future. I never really thought about it. I wasn't even sure I was going to have one.

CORDELIA: Well, I think this is great! Now you can leave and never come back! Well, I mean that in a positive way. Get out of Sunnydale. That's a good thing. What kind of moron would ever wanna come back here?

• Academics

written by: Dan Vebber; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/42loverswalk.html